Ugly duckling

The term ugly duckling has been around since the mid-1800s, it is an idiom. An idiom is a phrase that is more than the sum of its parts, or in other words, has more of a meaning than the individual words used in the phrase. We will examine the meaning of the idiom ugly duckling, where […]
from Grammarist
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